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“Brennan also fed the public wildly inaccurate details about the Osama bin Laden raid in 2011, and despite condemning leaks of classified information from others, he has often leaks classified information himself to suit his own needs. This is not...
As a general rule I try to avoid beaches where one must wear a sweatshirt in the summer. That’s not always the case in Nantucket but too often is. Plus Block Island is nicer in many ways. Nantucket is...
One of the things we hear all the time is that Trump is an a__hole. The thing is, after a life in real estate one can only expect as much. Real estate people in my experience are a__holes, often. But...
“He (Trump) can – and should – declassify everything possible, letting Congress and the public see the truth. That would put an end to the daily spin and conspiracy theories. It would puncture Democratic arguments that the administration is seeking...
There are times when one might be tempted to think that the world has reached “peak stupidity.” But there is no end. On the upside, given what has happened to attorney pay over the last 10 years we may have...
This story was linked to by The Intercept earlier this week. It appears that Steph Halper, the “spy” who was just revealed in the Trump campaign had allegedly done similar work in the 1980 campaign, seeking to undermine and spy...
…of the day. No spin. No tabloid trash.
(From The Washington Examiner) North Korea has announced that it is still open to talking with the U.S. after President Trump pulled the plug Thursday on a planned summit in Singapore between himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un....
Photo by David Shankbone (From AP News) Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to police Friday morning to face the first criminal charges to be filed against him after months of sexual abuse allegations from scores of women that destroyed his...
(From AP News) An explosion caused by an “improvised explosive device” ripped through an Indian restaurant in a mall in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, wounding 15 people, Canadian police said. Peel Region Sergeant Matt Bertram said two suspects with...
Photo: Jan Marcus (From UPI) Authorities said Friday a gunman who shot a woman and young girl inside an Oklahoma City restaurant was killed by an armed bystander as he attempted to flee. Police said the shooter opened fire inside...
(From The Washington Examiner) President Trump’s proposed budget would add $2.3 trillion more to deficits over the next decade than the White House estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. CBO, Congress’ agency for producing budget analyses, said Trump’s fiscal...
Photo by William Chen (From UPI) The expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline will proceed because of its record of resilience in the courts, the premier of oil-rich Alberta said. The highest court in British Columbia dismissed challenges filed...
Photo: Michael Gaida (From Reuters) Emmanuel Macron’s government, hoping to end a protracted French train strike, offered on Friday to soak up most of the national SNCF rail company’s debt as long as modernization plans to make the railways more...
Image: Pete Linforth (From Reuters) As Europe’s new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them. Austrian Max Schrems...
(From Fox News) A woman in Portland, Ore. claims that her family’s Amazon Alexa smart speaker recorded a private conversation and sent it to someone on her contact list, KIRO 7 News reports. The woman, named only as Danielle, received...
Illustration: Alexander Antropov (From ScienceNews.org) After a giant asteroid hit Earth about 66 million years ago, the planet’s climate went on a roller coaster ride. The space rock’s impact set off tsunamis and wildfires before climate-chilling clouds of sulfur gas...
More news. No spin. No tabloid trash.
This guy is the person the now famous lady in California called the cops on for barbecuing with charcoal. Everyone who really grills knows – and I grill often, multiple times a week in decent weather, and sometimes in terrible...
The land of good engineering, autobahns, and Cold War face-offs is a stranger place than most Americans know. It’s not all BMWs and the welfare state. And it does have a tendency to meltdown. (Or blow up.) (From The Hoover...
Look, it is legitimate to call these people out. In fact sane people HAVE to call these people out. The world is hard. Deal with it. Just because you’re a protected upper middle class kid who wants to feel “safe”...
For years, China told the Bush and Obama administrations that it had limited control over North Korea. That seemed a bit hard to believe, but was not widely disputed. Notice this sequence of recent events: 1. Trump links North Korea...
